Modem Machine Learning Engineer

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Modem Technologies Software

General Summary:

The Modem Machine Learning Engineer applies advanced machine learning techniques to next-generation modem systems, working across data engineering, model development, deployment, and lifecycle management. This role partners closely with modem, systems, and software teams to deliver production-ready ML solutions. You will place a strong emphasis on modern deep learning architectures, building scalable MLOps frameworks, and ensuring continuous model health monitoring in dynamic production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and prioritize high-impact machine learning use cases within modem and wireless systems.

• Design, develop, and train robust ML/DL models tailored for modem applications, leveraging time-series forecasting, sequence modeling, and modern deep learning architectures.

• Build and integrate automated, end-to-end ML pipelines encompassing data ingestion, feature generation, model training, evaluation, and deployment.

• Design and maintain state-of-the-art MLOps infrastructure to enable reproducible experimentation, strict model versioning, automation, and the scalable onboarding of new ML use cases.

• Deploy and heavily optimize ML models for on-device and modem targets, specifically focusing on HW and firmware integrated environments with strict latency, memory, and compute constraints.

• Implement robust model performance monitoring, establishing KPI regression tracking and automated detection for data and concept drift across both cloud and on-target deployments.

• Collaborate closely across systems, test, and platform teams to ensure a seamless production rollout and sustained model performance over time.

• Design and implement ETL, data platform, MLOps, CI/CD, observability, and governance pipelines across on-premises and cloud environments.

• Build and manage ML data platforms utilizing hands-on experience with AWS (S3, Glue, EMR), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), streaming/messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), data platforms (Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake/Iceberg/Hudi, SQL, Postgres), and observability stacks (PrometheGrafana, Datadog, Splunk).

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with at least 1 year of relevant experience or Master's degree

• Strong hands-on programming experience in Python and/or C/C++.

• Solid foundations in machine learning algorithms, probability, statistics, and software engineering principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with deep learning architectures including CNNs, RNNs, GRUs, LSTMs, Transformers, and related sequence models.

• Proficiency with industry-standard ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras.

• Proven experience building production-grade ML pipelines capable of handling large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.

• Deep experience with MLOps systems, including experiment tracking, model lifecycle management, CI/CD for ML, and cloud/on-device co-development environments.

• Experience implementing data drift, concept drift, and model performance monitoring using well-defined KPIs in a production setting.

• Strong software engineering skills, including object-oriented design, debugging complex integrated systems, and working within real-time execution constraints.

• Exposure to on-device ML deployment, quantization, and neural network optimization tools.

• Familiarity with cloud ML platforms (e.g., AWS SageMaker), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and automation/orchestration tools.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$128,000.00 - $192,000.00

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